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Historical Event on 11/11/1888

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, freedom fighter, was born in Mecca. He was an outspoken champion of rationalism and progressiveness in all spheres of Indian life.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/28/1998The third and final phase of polling is held in 131 Lok Sabha constituencies in 10 States and one Union Territory.
10/2/1972Broadcasting of Mumabi Doordarshan started.
10/1/1903Sachindev Burman (S. D. Burman), famous film music director, was born.
4/12/1992The 350-tonne Buddha statue salvaged from the Hussain Sagar where it had sunk in 1990.
3/4/1990Congress (I) gains absolute majority in Arunachal Pradesh; Gegong Apang CM.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
12/15/1992BJP Governments of Sunderlal Patwa (MP), Shanta Kumar (HP) and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (Rajasthan) dismissed.
7/10/1984White Paper on Punjab released by Union Government.
11/30/1974India, Pakistan decide to end the ten-year trade ban.
4/22/1991IMF and the World Bank decide to grant $1 billion loan to India.